Asus EEE PCs

Introduced in 2007, the Asus PC701 low cost PC received extremely good
reviews in the technical press across the world. I used one as my MAIN PC for over a year and was very impressed with its performance. It did not support many ham applications, so in the end was replaced by a Windows PC, but I did like this little baby.

It was the biggest selling laptop
in the USA in Christmas 2007 and Asus, a Taiwanese company better
known for its motherboards, has been making them at one every 6 seconds
to keep up with enormous demand across the world. At the time of
writing demand is considerably outstripping supply. Aimed at users that don't have
great techical skills e.g. children, schools, it comes pre-loaded
with a reliable and user-friendly version of Linux OS.

This is the PC I had been forecasting
would appear: something simple, reliable, ideal for web browsing,
basic word processing and spreadsheets, Skyping and e-mailing
- an easy to use PC without the bells and whistles!

Some of the features of the 4G model (later version have bigger screens and more memory as well as XP support):